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PROM THE .4MERICAN PAPERS. BOSTON, JAN. 4.—The following interesting Ex. traa of a Letter, communicated for publication in the United States Gazette, December 26, is known to the Editor to be genuine, and the fans stated may be relied upon. tXTRACT Or A LITTER FROM A lii*Ml3ER OF CON• GUESS TO RIS IN MIR COUNTRY, DATLD WASHINGTON, DEC. 23. " You have, doubtless, received information be fore this time, that Congresa have passed a law, lay ing an. Embargo. • The question was taken in the House of Representatives, at eleven 'o'clock, on Monday night, and carried by a large majority.-.. ItYes. 82.e.-Noes, 44. • " Probably tio question thathas been agitated since the establishnaentof the present Government, has ex, cited nioresensibility. The debate, especially upon the last day, was uncommonly animated and interesting. TISe friends of the measure had, it is supposed, agreed between Saturday evening and Monday morning, to say nothing, but take 'a silent vote ; except a few observations by way of explanation, nothing was taid.by the friends of the Bill during a session of 12 hotirsoa Monday. The time,was taken up by its op ponents. The measure is adopted in pursuance of a re commendation from the President, professedly given eonsequence of recent communications from Mr. A,RHSTItoNM, our Minister at Paris. Mr. A. has given information, that BUONAPARTE is determined to enforce his Decree against neutral commerce with out any exception in our favour. The letter of AeboXitatio, however, was not communicated to Us, though repeatedly called for, and though dif ferent Gentlemen expressed a strong jealousy that there Was something in that letter besides notice of BUONAPARTR'S eletermination to enforce hls Decree. '` NicktoLas, of Virginia, upon being prest, said, in embargo would be a powerful means to bring Great Britain and. France to terms. SIOLIE. said, . that France was contending for the rights of Neu- Ws, and that we ought to assist her in securing the. freedom of the seas. The'se two Gentlemen are supposed to' know more about executive secrets than, - Itiost others. Notwithstanding an attempt was studiously made to disguise the, real objet, the op. ponents suspeaed that Great Britain was the only Power aimed at. " You have seen in the Papers that BUONAPAIITE has said, There shall no longer l be any neutrals. Neutral ports shall be shut against British com merce.' What jealousy may then be reasonably in dulged ? for positive proof we have not, and cannot . °l ' t aill• Is it not probable that an intimation has been r ec . . t i ved through ARNIIITRONG, or in some other way, that our ports must be shut against the 13 ritish ? Or is it not the plan for us to make com mon cause with the August Emperor, whose sym pathies and ours are the same ? "'When the measure was first suggested in the, House, Mr. RANDOLPH approved it ; bui when he perceived the motive, the objea, and the probable 'consequences of the measure, he instimtlyend meg , zanimously retrenched his first opinion, and OpPosisrl The Bill zs calculated to seal the death-warrant of our. liberties. His last speech, delivered about tep o'clock •on.Adonday night, and the last that was delivered on the subjeft, 4J —as Qne of the most solemn, dignified., and impressive speeches which I ever heard. such was the predetermination, such inflexible obe etinacy of the majority, that argument and reason were useless. "..An Embsrrgawas deprecated, as in all proba bility it would lead to immediate War with Great Britain that it was idle to suppose she would not 'P e rceive the desigO, notwithstanding the flimsy "I / thrown over it. It was admitted, that if the mslan" eholy crisis hart arrived, in which War was, inevit. able, such' a measure might be pr4er. But it was t ley hoPed, tliat the day• of conciliation had eat Passed ; that it wasextremely to be regretted, that any obstacle should be throWll in the way to a Ne gociation with the Etivoy daily 'expefled here. , I bepe, Sir, that we may be disappointed in our ex- Peliationi, but the prospett it gloomy." 1 )11C. Philadelphia Paper of the 12th inst. so s. / we have been favoured with an Extra& of. a Letter from Batavia, stated July 24, 1807, to a Gentleman In this city, stating, that Dispatches had been received by the . Government of Batavia from Tamar, of ft large Fleet of 60 Sail of British Men of War and Transports, with 20,000 . land forces on 611 4 having passed by, supposed to be intended against the Island of Manilla. The Fleet was fitted out at Bengal and Calcutta. SA-TUADAY EVIMING, Dec. 26..•'—.A. son of Go varoor HuLL's arrived here to-day with important intelligence from the Michigan territory. He .fates, that.2ooo,lndians, evidently with hostile views, had assembled in the neighbourhood of Detroit. It is su PPobed they have been instigated by the British a. to make war upon our infant settlements, and 600 men are ordered out. from the State a Ohio to meet them. We tuwe received (says the Untied Stales Gazelle), our reporti of the proceedings of Congress, to the evening of Thursday last, at which time both Houses adjourned until Monday nest. No business of publiC importance bad been transafled. From the Petershurgh Inielligencer, Dec. 2e. Rustotra I—A report has reached town, that the British Frigate Statira, on board of which was Mr. Rasa, special Envoy from Great Britain to thiS Country, has been captured otr the Capes of Vir ginia, by the French Ship Patriot, which loft Hamp. ton-Roads a few days since. We have not been able to trace 'this report to any authentic source, nor do we pretend to attach more credit to it than is usually due to the innumerable: important" reports which each day reach car ears , and employ the vacant moments of our busy politi cians. There are, however, some circumstances tend ing considerably to lessen : the surprise which an, event of this sort would otherwise occasion. The French Ship Patriot left . our waters about a week since, fully apprised of the expected arrival of the Statira, and that Norfolk was the port to which she Was destined. The Biitish Frigates too, which were for some time in the vicinity of Lynhaven Bay, it is believed, have lately sailed for the Hali fax station. A. Frigate, says the Norfolk Pt4MO Ledger, of December 2t, (supposed to be British) looked into Hampton Roads on Friday, and afterwards stool .out to sea again. This could not be the Statira, with Mr. ROSE, but one of the Squadron that has been here so long Jooking for the Patriot. It is stated in a . letter from Washington, that Bro wAPAwra his demanded of our Government the amount of the profits of the imports, arising from our commerce with St. Domingo, since that Empire became independent.—(New York Gazette.). WAsumoTort, DEc. 23.--LDuring the debate, in Conclave oti Monday evening, Mr. GARtmstEft . poured forth, with intrepid vehemence and ,indigna tion, one of the severest speeches ever pronounced in Congress, against the present Executive. The accusation was solemn, ardent, and impressive, made in the ferVid spirit of honourable feeling. The duels and the' riots which prevail in the .Country, the undignified appearance of the present congress, the difference with Great Britain, and the attack on the Judiciary, begun by Mr. JEFFERSON, and foll Owed up by his tools, ihews in a striking man ner the dreadful tendenCy of Democracy. Its pro= gress is always under the pretence of Liberty,.. to dt - Mblish every valuable institution, to produce Anar chy, and to end in Despotism. The Merchants and dealers in flour and wheat at the Southward, are very severely feeling the first effe6ts of the Embargo: flour has fallen at New York, Alexandria, Baltimore, and other platles, to four a four a►►d a-fourth dollars, .and several great failures have already occurred': One at • New. York, last week, ft3r eight hundred 'thousand dollars, it is said. While the Embargo' d was under consideration in Congress, ,Mr. QUINCY moved a clause to ex.: empt Vessels employed in the Fisheries from its ope ration is part. Negatived—yeas, 45—pays, 82. All the from this state, voted in the affirmative. • • GENERAL IPIIITELOCKE's TRIAL. NINTH DAY. SHORTLY after the opening of the Court this morning General CRAUFURD concluded his evidence. General ,Lumuy was then examined, and was giving his evidence when our express left the Court. General Lumtiv appeared much indisposed. , . In.a few, days the very interesting Report, by the i Commissioners of Military Enquiry, on the Medical . Depot :ii.itent of, the.Arniy, will be published. The Cominissioners•have been Many months employed investigatini; the abuses in this department, and their Report is not of IeSS interest than that regarding the Barrack DepartMent. MO Com Missioners of Mili- Wry EnqUiry are at present engaged with the depart- ruent of the War Office; from thence they proceed to, the Oflice of the Commander in Chief; next to Chelsea College.; and then to the very extensive and expensive department of the Ordnance. • TIIEDIEATRE .--,-The Comedy of The Chances was revivetton Saturday last at Drury-laneTheatre. Weican mit compliment ELLISTON on his conception of Dee John,whoie charaeter he rendered tnuch,toolight,and frivolous. 1,11 the scene where he peeps at the first Consiantia, his amorous raptures were by no means consistent with delicacy, and rather conveyed the idea of an eager Gourmand at the sight of his favour- 1 ite dish. He inust re-consider this charatier before he_will have any pretensions to critical counnenda lion, though be may divert the upper. gallery. Mrs. JoanaN, for• the first time, performed the part of the second Consiontki, and in such a manner as, to spew that she fully conceived its nature and qualities. She played with such admirablespirit and feeling, that we land much cause for regret that she had nothing to do in the first three eels. The rest of the cha racters were very Well sußported,, particularly Auto itio by Dow rots, and the comedy was well received, by a numerous audience. . The Gazette of Saturday contains loyal and , pa. - triotic. Addresses to his MAJESTY on the reboil vigorous system of warfare, from the.Corporaii of Liverpool, the Corporation of Aberdeen, and tii..l of lavernes. PORTVG4L. taws', JAN. t6.—The scarcity here is chiefly confined to bread, . We are supplied with beef front Spain, but. all the corn in the country will not last until the end of the present month. Gen. JuNOT, in order to tranquillize the pobliemind, has assured the people that they shall have fresh supplies hem France, but every rational man knows, that from. the badness. of the roads and the distante, the thing . is impraaicable, Very few of the English are ' in close' confinement : Mr. Stevens, an opulent merchant, is among the number; the rest have beett,liberated , on their parole. Oread remains at the same price as when the PtuNdu IlEGENT'departed.: and as lolig as there is a pound to be had, no alteration will tOce place, by order of the French General. The lower .order of the PortugUese are' far - from being under ~ complete subje4tion to the French ; on the contrary, they speak their wishes freely, and even openly threaten the , French. If the military reprimand • them, they' display the most determined spirit,.and are profuse of inveaiyes and reproaches.. Had not the Portuguese been persuaded that a strong Englid, force would soon land to co-operate with them in the expulsion, of the Enemy, they would haVe long before this have made the attempt themselves.— Scarce a week passed that it iwas not represented an English force was'at baud to assist them. The in sulreaion which took place about the middle of last month would have iliHtllned a much snore serious aspea,•bot for the active interference of the' Portu- Auese.polica, at the head of which is Colonel No viva. That ()dicer bad. beceine the most/ abjeel slave of General Amor. There are in . the. whole. about ta,ono troops at 1.;.;b0n, and they are not more th an sufficient to controul theterhulent spirit of the people. At St. titres and Opal() 'are Spanish troops only. 0 Government Paper is only at. 20. per Cent. dis count, but at one period it mas as high as 70 per Cent. It is now ascertained that the Russian Ships of War in the Tagus were bound. to England to re lit, when the damage they received on their passage compelled them to take shelter in that River, where they soon _ learnt the rupture between Russia and England. They are undergoing slight repairs, and l are in great, want .of provisions and necessaries.— The folloWing Decree had been issued by General JUNOT:-..... . TRANSLATION. " All goods, jewels, and silver, as well as move. "ahles atid landed property of any nature whatsoever, belonging to any individual subjetA of Great Britain, found in any territory of the Portuguese dominions, shall be confiscated, All goods of British illailtl6. faEture, of any kind whatsoever e shall be also con fiscated,. " It is expressly ,ordained, that any person, of whatever class,-who shall have in his possession any sum or goods belonging to subjeels of Great Britain, .shall appear and deck re the same in the course of three days, at the Sqcretarys °dice, M. LEGOY, ap. Csonntissary ad interim whose -residence is b ar opposite tlie. Fountain of the Loretto; and in the interior parts of ,Portiagal these Declari tiona are to be mad .before the hi:igiitrates of . the place. Any person Who' shall . not make a true and, ez.aa declaration shall .forfeit ten times the sum of thi objet so declared, and shall receive besides cor poral punishment, if the objet should deserve such. . Any goods pr property which may have been any ways • concealed by either Portug nose or French ISt c , rehants, or those of any other nation, shall be de clared in the'sarne manner under the-like penalties. Thu Adrniniitrator-General of the Finances, and the Regency Council, ire charged with tine execu tion of this Decree. (Signed) ' " JUNOT." 4. 1 ' Ditto' in the Palace of the Head Quarters, Lisbon, sth Decanter." POLICE. Bow-lITREPT.--On Saturday, about 12 o'clock, a fellow had the audacity to steal a large trunklull of valuable linen, from the door of Sir John Moots, in Lincoln's Inn Fields. It was soon missed, and Sir. John Nicols's coaahman puriued the fellow to Clare Market, where he found him with the trunk upon his hack. He was taken to Bow-street, and committed for further examination. On Saturday evening a man and his wife, servants to Mr. Sumer, of George -street, Westminster; the Member for Surrey, were brOught up on suspieitii. of attempting to set fire to tlictir master's house, but after a long examination, the Magistrate thought there was no ground to detain them; they were therefore dismissed. Circumstances of suspicion still remain against some person or persons, as there is no doubt but die house was intended to be set ou tre.. Qv E e bi.SQU A R SA urjay . the well.known charakiter James George Semple L isle, corsithottly . called lifojar Semple, who had on t he preceding evening _been apprehended for having, under false - pretenceS, obtained money from Mary Burroughs, was again brought 'up. It was stated on the evening. alluded to, • that sometitne ago she advertised in One of .the Daily Papers for a situation, as a Nursery Maid; the Major had in consequence thereof ap plied to her, informing her that his name was George Smith, E 4 of Roehamptort, and that be was' in want of a servant of her description; this 'being the case, she readily accepted of his offer; it was agreed. upon, that in the course a a day or two.he should call upon her, and inform her when she might go down to his rc4idence. The Major, when about to leavc her, said, that he - unfortunately had left his purse, at home, and, as he would see her shortly, re.!. quested the loan 4A a few shillings, but she having no silver,. offered him a 75. pie(); which lie took, faith fully promising to return it to her at the next meet. lag, since which she had never , heard from him, or Seen him, till the day of his apprehension, and then met him in St. James's-street, from whence she watched him to his abode. The complainant, how ever, not appearing to substantiate the above charge, tift e Major was dismissed. The Surveyor to the General Poet-Office is to . malce a tour of inspettion through the different countift, and !tweitigate into the condo& arctic various Coun try Ultieeh, them being of late many serious and "di -grounded conightinti touching the delivery of and particularly with tesjxt to Newspapers. HYDROPHOBIA. 17Thc subjee of 1-I,DROtitOSIA is so Interesting 113 mankind, ' that we will nlly give insertion to the ti►lluwing I.cttet, and shall as readily admit any think that Dr. !Opal:La? may think row to sax in answer tv it, or the corniniaii. tatton of any other intelligent Correspondent.) EDITOR', At this distattce from the great metropolis, we must, of course, have very inadequate notions of the refinements in Newspaper management; and of the views of ingenious Correspondents. Strange re ports are current, But it is in to suppose that you will allow your publica,tion to be ;I.e vehicle of erroneous or iritercited ioils cot:- earning- the treatment of so frightfill a nialatly as b . - drophobia. On this presumption, I Venture to 'affirm' that Dr. Mosat.zr, ozr his own chewing, in your Paper of January pli,. is not entitled to the cre 7 dit which he claims froth your numerous Readers. The Doctor's historical assertions are palpably neous ; his judgment as to the nature of the disorder. more than doubtful ' • prglice au itutation of t'..at which ,bas_ failed in five 'hundred previous in- stances; and, his division of the stages of thediseasi frivolous and false. I proceed to prove these points With all possible hi, vity. • .. . . . „ .. . The DoaOr says that his is the first core of hydro. phObia.on record. Nov,v' Sir, the hue respettable Dr. NUGENT, of Bath, . published one cure in a well-known treatise; the . present Dr, ,A.alloLD, of Leicester, another; Dr.RoanaT BeirroN, of , Vir ginia, a third; not to _cite , any in riin.:ign languago. it is true that the Iwo former Writcra . have 4ten sup. posed to mistake song" ot }Kg. fk,r hydrophobia; ' and Dr. BURTON hate - 6V41, cll,O get! by - Dr. hanDosi;, a late work on ft:ver, w;!Ir ;he sine error. Dr. MOSBLEY Will join the sceptic: 'no 4.l6tifrt ; but hits scepticism will recoil ith tentbla •force upon bit' own head ; for the conscqueuccs of the wound, the time at which the atithiou of' the constitution arose, and the whole series of pheneinetia, are very obvi ously differeut in his report from those which take place in hydrOphobia.• The paio at the moment, which Dr. Moseecr ridicelouslyascribea to the viru, lence of the poison, the aff;:eion of the arm from the bitten fingers up to the clbew, the livid appear r ance said to come and go, are all fure;g - ii to the tif f feels of the bite-of mad animals; and' rile whole, 101 also the general disorder, more probably referable to mechanical irritatiou, as every surgeon will perceive. The time between the injury and the commence ment of the Doetor's pompously detailed operations ismuch•shorter than between a bite from a mad dug and hydrophobia. In scarce any authentic example is this under thred i weeks, and 4U days is near the average; whereas, Mrs. H. I.,scAzu was seized on "the 13th day after the bite, a Very cennuon period in case of : a ,mechanically irritated wound. pr.. M. says, that his patient was salivated witbia 4B hours:* Dr. BUitTOTed patient, after`much bleeding, began to rub in mercury, on the 7th of July, 1803, and had sore gums on the vh, and'ho the 1511 was well. .T,ba,,treatment with mercury has becu in toll use-for ..5o year's; without tile,-sinaliest.heriefir iii Ptak of 4 •11-Litptalitraird . `calii: c4lll),lroiihobia, tlictigh often resorted to on the very first 'a ppearatiZm ILIT..Mos LEY'S camphor julep, 'with his tea-spuunlui of sal so pewder, is rice U a ,composi, • Lion, to think about tor a moment, Trh: iniscloef„ promulgating stories of this nature among common readers is depriving future sealers .of all chance from varied . trials; for the- friends aini relatiees will ,all quote Dr. M05e44,01 1 6.,,r0e inediCal map, though convinced-of the inutility of salivition,..N;vill yield to, their impartueity, because-be, can promise nothing from a plan lees fully disproved by exCe , rience. To excite salivation in a short time is no great medical feat ; but the patient will die ; and perhaps it/will be thought all for want of suing to Albany, iis•Dr. M. mentions-of Mrs. H. LascAza, for the direction, as I . spppoiti,, of other invalids. Dr. MOSELEY, perhaps to evade the objeQion from expeelence against the use of mercury, divides the constitutional disease into three stages 1. Dread of liquids.. 2.. Difficulty. (or impossibility) of swal lowing. IL Rabies. Now, Sir, this is really put ting the cart before the horse with a witness--aye with panty a score of witnesses ; fur, in the great .rnajority of well observed caseS, she difficulty of swallowing has preceded, and most probably caused, the dread of 'liquids. Thus, in a Report froth a So ciety for the improvemeot 91 medical knowledge, founded by Mr. J. HUNTER, Dr. Geoitcu FORDYCit, and others, it is.stated, upon the authority of a vast mass of infarmation, . that the difficulty of swallow• ing liqUiCis is‘‘ generally, discovered accidentally, 04 attempting todrink ; and after a few trials is accom panied with such horrible sensations, that army thing which afterwards' recalls to the mind even the idea of drinking, excites violent agitation and inexpressi ble aversion."--,See Vol. 1.. p. 30ti. I um reao at a loss to, guess whether it was sheer ignorance or , boldness which attempted to set up the centrary .as the law of the disease. ',think it proper to be ;is concise as possible, for ;natty other objettions occur ; and if Dr. MositeeT chooses, to discuss the subjed farther, I am at his ser vice, provided both parties, are alleWed woo; though simply • ALCKANDFR FER6i7S6UI, StUkkilt of Ali.,,th;irie. Edinburgh, Tan. 31, ISA,. SMITUFIE3.I.) NtAiticeT, FAO. 1. This day's 4 market was tolerably well suppfled with prime Beasts, and the show of Cdirle.m genei ai was pretty good ; Beef, Veal, and Pork are ti:arer than oar last report ; Mutton supputts last price, and the trade for file most part was middling.—Tl.o sales in the Haymarket were rather coniderrtble ; Nay and Straw have got up in price Friday'il. market ; Clever sold at last price.—We subjoin 3 correat st.itement of the priers and iumabcrs To sink. the Ottal pot' st , .ar of 81b. Ike' 4s. 3d. to 4s. bd.—Mat: ea t.) 4s. 4d. .- - Ve ss. bd. to 73. z4.--Lamb Mi. Ott. to 0,. 04.-=VG:I4. :ct ;„ os. 6d. • Beasts, iSso. , —Sheep 13i00.--Calves 14 " 0.-- Pig: 2, litty 41. los. to 61.05; ocl.--Ckivcr . 4i. ISS. 64. tt) 51, od—s trary tt. 04. otl. to 21..''.1t5: CORN EXCHANGE, FED, B.—Thp ar:':c-d; TheAt to-day nytke sui)plrffittia con;ltt c 4 : o,i e titicl eiriy it) the (i 7% ww . e, ;11 iti price; but:bOaltse' ; titw is higher'; Malt keep :MI Bi.:1114 'stark bat little ; there are, bni i% all of Oati, atui they are 4earet ; Flour as laic My , tUW ly • Fda a 3 1)